Vocabulary: 繁花
- 数 shùo: 数 shuo4: (literary) frequently; repeatedly数 shù: 数 shu4: number; figure; several; a few数 shǔ: 数 shu3: to count; to count as; to regard as; to enumerate; to list
- baked sesame seed-coated cake
- knife; CL:把[ba3]
- lingzhi or reishi mushroom (Ganoderma lucidum)
- Tiananmen Gate, entrance of the Imperial City in Beijing
- see 龍城區|龙城区[Long2 cheng2 Qu1]
- see 廣西壯族自治區|广西壮族自治区[Guang3 xi1 Zhuang4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 qu1]
- presidential palace
- dizzy; giddy; one's head spins
- the world in chaos; troubled times; (in Buddhism) the mortal world
- Celestial Empire, tributary title conferred on imperial China; Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
- city wall
- 圣 kū: 圣 ku1: (literary) to dig with persistent effort (e.g. to gather wild vegetables)圣 shèng: 圣 sheng4: (bound form) peerless (in wisdom, moral virtue, skill etc); (bound form) peerless individual; paragon (sage, saint, emperor, master of a skill etc); (bound form) holy; sacred
- Wong Kam-po (1973-), Hong Kong champion cyclist
- palace hall
- to kowtow (traditional greeting, esp. to a superior, involving kneeling and pressing one's forehead to the ground)
- king's palace; throne hall
- (bound form) lion
- lit. heaven's law and earth's principle (idiom); fig. right and proper; right and unalterable; a matter of course
- Daoist immortal; supernatural entity; (in modern fiction) fairy, elf, leprechaun etc; fig. lighthearted person
- pearls and jades; jewels; clever remark; beautiful writing; gems of wisdom; genius; outstanding person
- 羌 qiāng: 羌 qiang1: muntjac; grammar particle indicating nonsense (classical)羌 Qiāng: 羌 Qiang1: surname Qiang; Qiang ethnic group
- round flat cake; cookie; cake; pastry; CL:張|张[zhang1]
- to overtake; to catch up with; to hurry; to rush; to try to catch (the bus etc); to drive (cattle etc) forward; to drive (sb) away; to avail oneself of (an opportunity); until; by (a certain time)
- lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers; innumerable; thousands upon thousands
- 保 Bǎo: 保 Bao3: Bulgaria (abbr. for 保加利亞|保加利亚[Bao3 jia1 li4 ya4])保 bǎo: 保 bao3: to defend; to protect; to keep; to guarantee; to ensure; (old) civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3 jia3] system
- city; town; CL:座[zuo4]
- first draft (of writing)
- painting brush
- to substitute for; to replace; to supersede
- huge; great; grand; worthy of the greatest admiration; important (contribution etc)